tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 37

Compliance: DOJ Arrests 91 People for Medicare Fraud Worth $492 Million

Know what this type of arrest could do to your income.No practitioner is safe from government fraud crackdowns, and CMS wants you to know that any health care professional could be next. The latest arrests, which the government made on Oct. 4, involved doctors, nurses, and other practitioners. In total, 91 people were indicted in Medicare fraud schemes totaling $492.2 million.In addition to formal indictments, CMS suspended Medicare payments and took other administrative actions against 30 health care providers "following a data-driven analysis and based upon credible allegations of fraud," the DOJ said in a...

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